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Some Southern Favorites
Here's just some of our store's current and all-time Southern favorites. Come on by the store to see our Southern section!
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred
A Land Remembered has been ranked #1 Best Florida Book eight times in annual polls conducted by Florida Monthly Magazine.
The Blood of Heaven is the story of Angel Woolsack, a preacher's son, who flees the hardscrabble life of his itinerant father, falls in with a charismatic highwayman, then settles with his adopted brothers on the rough frontier of West Florida, where American settlers are carving their place out of lands held by the Spaniards and the French.
WINNER OF THE FLAHERTY-DUNNAN FIRST NOVEL PRIZE
One of Time Magazine's "21 Female Authors You Should Be Reading"
FINALIST FOR THE 2014 CHAUTAUQUA PRIZE
Named a Best Book of 2013 by the Wall Street Journal
A New York Times Editors' Choice
An O Magazine Top Ten Pick
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around—fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson—a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward—the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner.$14.99ISBN: 9780060594671Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: William Morrow Paperbacks - May 17th, 2011“The classic trifecta of talent, heart, and a bone-deep sense of storytelling….A masterful performance, deftly rendered and deeply satisfying. For days on end, I woke with this story on my mind.”
— David Wroblewski
$14.99ISBN: 9780446694537Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Grand Central Publishing - June 13th, 2006For 10 years Arlene has kept her promises, and God has kept His end of the bargain. Until now. When an old schoolmate from Possett turns up at Arlene's door in Chicago asking questions about Jim Beverly, former quarterback and god of Possett High, Arlene's break with her former hometown is forced to an end.
$15.00ISBN: 9780316012126Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Back Bay Books - September 19th, 2007"There is nothing small about Childress's fine novel. It's big in all the ways that matter - big in daring, big in insight, and big-hearted.
$17.00ISBN: 9780881464481Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Mercer University Press - September 30th, 2013$14.99ISBN: 9781595541604Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Thomas Nelson - May 28th, 2006First, I had to lie to my boss. (Sort of.) Then my parents had a fight. (They never fight.) The pint-sized lapdog that is treated better than I am has thrown up. (Twice.) This vacation hasn't even started...and I'm ready to go home.
$16.00ISBN: 9780143118572Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Penguin Books - October 26th, 2010Steel Magnolias meets The Help in Beth Hoffman’s New York Times bestselling Southern debut novel, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
$16.00ISBN: 9780142001745Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Penguin Books - January 28th, 2003The multi-million bestselling novel about a young girl's journey towards healing and the transforming power of love, from the award-winning author of The Invention of Wings
$16.99ISBN: 9780312312442Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: St. Martin's Griffin - January 13th, 2005Why couldn't the Sopranos survive living down South? Simple. You can't shoot a guy full of holes after eating chicken and pastry, spoon bread, okra, and tomatoes.
What does a Southern woman consider grounds for divorce? When daddy takes the kids out in public dressed in their pajama tops and Tweety Bird swim socks. Again.
$16.00ISBN: 9780425221341Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Berkley - May 6th, 2008The host of All Things Southern shares the sass and strength of Southern mamas in this spunky guide to life.
$15.00ISBN: 9780425240854Availability: BackorderedPublished: Berkley - May 3rd, 2011The bestselling author of Suck Your Stomach In & Put Some Color On! returns with more helpful how-to's and keen observations from Dixie.
$14.99ISBN: 9780061136658Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Ecco - June 30th, 2009After fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter's schedule, Julia Reed got married and bought a house in the historic Garden District. Four weeks after she moved in, Hurricane Katrina struck. The House on First Street is the chronicle of Reed's remarkable and often hilarious homecoming, as well as a thoroughly original tribute to our country's most original city.
$16.00ISBN: 9780425232200Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Berkley - April 5th, 2011The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
$15.95ISBN: 9780375707094Availability: On Our Shelves NowPublished: Vintage - March 27th, 2001In this masterful debut, Martin Clark proves to be the heir apparent of great Southern raconteurs and the envy of more seasoned novelists as he takes us on a frantic tour of the modern south.
$21.99ISBN: 9781451692273Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Gallery Books - September 10th, 2013From the author of the “wonderfully crafted” (San Francisco Book Review) Ghost on Black Mountain comes a haunting gothic novel set in the Depression-era South about two young women who form an unlikely alliance when the spirit of a dead woman takes up residence in their home.
Shelly Parker never much liked Faith Dobbins, the uppity way that girl bossed her a$22.99ISBN: 9780786890446Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Hachette Books - July 2nd, 2003A captivating novel about one woman's journey toward independence and the life-changing friendship that guides her there. Married for 20 years to the Reverend Benjamin Lynch, a handsome, ambitious minister of the prestigious Methodist church, Dean Lynch has never quite adjusted her temperament to the demands of the role of a Sunday wife.
$27.99ISBN: 9780848746391Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Southern Living - September 15th, 2015A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the celebrated bestselling author of All Over but the Shoutin' and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Rick Bragg, comes a poignant and wryly funny collection of essays on life in the south.$28.00ISBN: 9781594206559Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 DaysPublished: Penguin Press - May 16th, 2017“The one food book you must read this year."
—Southern Living
One of Christopher Kimball’s Six Favorite Books About Food
A people’s history that reveals how Southerners shaped American culinary identity and how race relations impacted Southern food culture over six revolutionary decades
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